Those who have not lived in the eighteenth century, in the years before the Revolution do not know the sweetness of living and cannot imagine what it was like to have happiness in life.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

There are many people who have the gift, or failing, of never understanding themselves. I have been unlucky enough, or perhaps fortunate enough to have received the opposite gift.

Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.

Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses ones.

In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.